"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. A fine example of how words and pictures can lock horns to charming effect. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. The cuddly yet giddily preposterous pencil art has the still-life absurdity of Chris Van Allsburg, with characters always frozen in the throes of some larger-than-life struggle against their well-meaning but deadpan dinosaur friend. After greeting a guest at the door, “Lead him through to the parlor.” (Illustration: siblings straining to pull a giant green dinosaur through a human-sized door.) Next: “Offer him a comfortable chair.” (Illustration: a dainty pink chair nearly crushed beneath a behemoth rear end.) And on it goes with the dino wreaking havoc upon each highly civilized instance of small talk or cake serving. Flora and the Flamingo, Molly Idle Flora and the Penguin, Molly Idle Tea Rex, Molly Idle Pearl. These printable activity sheets include a coloring page, a maze, an early learning activity. She is also the creator of the Tea Rex series, the mermaid tales, Pearl and Coral, and Witch Hazel. Molly Idle interview for Creativity Endures post. Tea parties are fun, especially when Tea Rex is invited. Some kids like tea parties, others like dinosaurs, and never the twain shall meet-until now? Idle cleverly constructs her picture book as a Miss Manners–style primer on how to throw a delightfully proper tea party, and the prose’s stiff upper lip never falters no matter the monster-sized faux pas occurring within the illustrations. Molly Idle is the author and illustrator of the Caldecott Honor-winning picture book Flora and the Flamingo and all of the books featuring Flora and her feathered friends.
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